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. TH.E SUN, -LONDON ; SATIT-RDA V, JANITARA! 6, 1838 ............-_____ POLITICAL CONSISTENCY. 1 ,,, 1 N k , 4 ..,.,=-1--N 1 -. J 11.11, il_ 0, • c... '1 1 1114: REVENUE FOR THE YEAR, AND - QUARTER - 7------------- " ‘ T " )" ''' 183 TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. SIR, -Having seen seen the name of an individual figuring, as No. 1.-An AL , :tract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of January, 1837, ar.d sth of January, 1838, shewing the Increase or the Chairman of Mr. Leader', Committee, and charging that Hon. Gentleman with misrepr esent i ng the opinions of his Decrease on each head thereof. f April 5, QUARTERS ENDED 1 YEAR I QUARTERS ENDED YEAR Year ended Jan. b. 1 Quarter ended Jan. 5. • constituents; such charge comes with very ill grace, when __._ ,t ended i t - ----.. -\ ended Inc, " .----,....___..-,-...........-,.., July 5, i Oct. 10, , Jan. 5, 1 Jan. 5, April 5, ' July 5, 1 Oct. 19, Jan. 5, Jan 5, rease. Decrease, i Increase. I Decrease. every pcVOn paying the least attention to reports of the late 183 ) 1936 1 1636 : 1837 i 1837 9337 1537 1 1837 1933 1814 i Parliament, must have been quite aware of that ------ --___ -_-__ ---- --,-----, -----. ---.-. -__ -.......-- - ---- ---- -- --- opinions respecting the Canadas. As most C g h e a r i l r t m le e m n an' o s f 1 .. .. - "date.l DOtles 0 417 6'4 -'in' 2 , - ' ~1 ~ o 7 02;) 3 121 126 9931 ( 8 , 3 6A) 70 1 --.- .- -. Coramittus are acquainted avid the opinions of the candidate Sugar Duty appltca.le to Custt,ms.-Cons , ,ll Consolidated Fund. ..... ..... .... they are supporting, the ignorance exhibited by this individual Sugar Ditty app l icuble to Supples 503,3q .. 1,333,'91 772,173 ii;(3,403 . 1,5n5,034 593,570 ..- . -..- - -- exceeds anything before heard of. This gentleman at ono -. ; --,............. -.-_,........ ..................• .......... m ....a.' .................... ..................... ................... ..................... ...................... .........7. 7.1 time figured as a Tory of the old school, but finding popular Total Customs 4,44 ,9,18 4,842,c,g 43,33,3,777 4,0,39,993 i 1P,710,410 ! 4,41e,r,05 4,430,1A5 5,436,116 4,52 1 ,978 18,0 - ,, , i,-.264•,: 1 Total CUstonls ...... 900,1.56 455,340 -. and in favour of Relorm, he became an Ultra-Radical ; Stairs ~c , 93,312 3,215, o 3,8112,9211 3,60+,7+ , 4 i 1 ~744,17.1 i 4934043 ‘2,1163,5F4 3,10.5,4r4•,,f11 11, /9;033 1 Excise ........ .;;;. 949,536 212,800 1,6117,Cm 3,734 go 1,714 . 741 1 , 573 , 52 . , 1 6,7A,42.1 1 1,618,162 1,647,039 1,62 ,• , 52 1,514, r , 0 6,1 . 3 ~ 1.51 IStamp5... ... . and now finding the Canada rebellion is not even popular Taxes 1 '187 , 564 18,,,064 1,571,1:.0 334,857 I,' 94,6 m ! 3,9- 9,7F1 1 1P1,219 1,604,409 30-,0. , 2 4579,029 3,6,',748 ITaxes 12,01'1 .15 623 • , with the party he has courted with such zeal, he recommends Post Office ...... ... 366,001 376,000 399,000 3-.k!,00+3 i 1,4 0,i101) 1 367,000 35%737 418,006 37ti,003 1,517,743 1 Post-office 27,743 27,000 - Miscellaneous ............................. 1,,743 5,727 0,701 ' 174 34,9(13 Aliscellaneous 5;304 9,699 great caution. to be observed at a public meeting . , and like the 7, , ,74 6,240 9,i73 ! 40,9 , :0 1 26,134 ...... ___ _______ ____. _ faded Glory of Westminster becomes Conservative ; and in Total Ordinary Revenue.. I 8,582,941 11,747,347 10,700,674 11,400,764 ' 41,431,026 ' 8,443,9ra 10,- 12,11 11,192,634 11,61:3,744 i 42,03,002 the event of another election, will in all In:T.resLar(l,[her Moneys, includ -1 probability be fiuuring on the Committee of some such Right Honourable as Sir G. l ii, ' Pru t bil'AZ l l: 3 o f Ad 'es I 1 , Imprest ,e.• olnrt 193 Murry}', Sir Robert Peel, or some Ultra-Tory candidate for 5... .................. L's , 702 101 5;6 M 2.53 : 187 995 540,5;8 1 159,171 270,110 9.00,531 298__,183 1t , !7,6' 9 i Mone3l 2* . 0,n71 - -____ -_---..- --- .......................... .........• .............,.. ............. WeStmiuSter. Total Income__ ............ 9,682,543 11, 0 46,935 112,40,927 ' 11,54Q,759 : 45,001,1;4 , 8,622, , :i4 1 , ',83,5 , 9 11,6031 1 0'F5 I 1,' , 01,!'t32 i 43,100, , 11 I 275,814 . 2,11'6,1 7 180,533 267,360 ___,_ .h C; ONSB TENT REFORMER. rim Amount applied to the Com --------- ------ -------,. _ Deduct Do. - solidated Fund .. . ................. . . 5 - 541 883 7,122,995 x,068 917 6,1.3,535 29,296,3 - 0 5,780,320 7,251,669 8,712,C9-2 1 1 ,01 1 ,312 0,75 ,0‘29 I , . crease. WINDSOR-FRIDAY. Ditto, to pay off' Exchequer Bills . '' ' i Deduct increase 2 - ,5,,41-1 26;,340 charged on Sugar Dutv ... . .. - - - - - - - - - - Ditto, as part of the WaYs ......... Viscount Melbourne arrived at the Castle yesterday. means of the Year .................... 2,901,660 4,795,910 4, 8 11,!-.83 3,165,2 0 4 t 15,601,q c 4 1 2,341,8r8 3,731,911 2,9:30,473 2,790,'390 12,344,7 , 0 , • Increase on: ____ r----;-i Decrease on the, --..-:_:. the Quarterl At the Royal dinner last night, there were present, the ,----, ______, t0ta1..................... 9,t'82,543 1 11,849935 1 12680,1P7 11,568,759 f 45,001,!(4 1; 8,f,22,134 10; 8.3,58.) 11f 9'065 1 11,801,!i30 r 43, I 00,s il li Year 1 . i 1,S;)0, 5.t "213,173 Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Countess______________ __________ MulgTave, Lady Mary StOpford. Nn TT Tv.....- __ _7 I'll_ _ n.l C. ..... I‘lll 11,.. NA :,,..- . Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Cnl,,nol enri IL, (7.-.. Er_ _ 7. r._- ~ Viscount Melbourne arrived at the Castle yesterday. At the Royal dinner last night, there were present, the Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Countess MulgTave, Lady Mary Stopford, Viscount Melbourne, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Grey, Hon. Mrs. Campbell, lion. Misses Murray, Leycester, and Davys, Broness Lebzen, Viscount Torrington, the Hon. William Cowper, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish. After dinner, litr Majesty's private band per formed as usual in the music room. This band is composed of seventeen persons, who all perform on wind instruments. Viscount Melbourne left the Castle this morning for town. Lordiflill this day, after a long audience of the Queen, left also for town. n. 11. (come and Ch. Lrge o the Con didated nid, in tIF Quarter: ended th, sth Jan 1 . 37, 1837, Quarters ended Jan. a. INCO3IE. Quarters ended Jan. 5. Customs.—Consolidated Duties Sugar appl , cable to the Consolidaed Fund 3,629,709 Total Customs 3,6.9,709 Her Majesty was occupied during the whole of this morning with State affairs, and could not, therefore, have gone cut had the weather been favourable, but a thick fog has prevailed since last night, which seems likely to continue. The Hon. Mrs. Grey left to-day for town, Excise Stamps Taxes Post Office Aliseellace.ous 3,5'0,8'14 1,511,400 I, 19,02'z 3:(1,o00 2;3,91. To Cash brought to this Account to replace the like sum issued, or to be issued, out of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland, ibr Supply and other Services I ,f344,3,::2 10,993,`283 69:3, , A 150,000 11,3 8, O 6 111,143,•.3;: THE CANADAS. ABSTRACT OF THE OFFICIAL AND DOCU MENTARY HISTORY OF THE CANADAS, FROM THE TIME OF THEIR CESSION IN 1763, DOWN TO THE PRESENT PERIOD, IN CLUDING THE, REPORTS LAID BEFORE PARLIAMENT IN 1837. , The following extracts from a letter written in 1765, by Governor Murray, to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, describe the character of the English settlers and the Cana dians:— " The towns of Quebec and Montreal contain about 14,700 inhabitants. The savages, who are called Roman Catholics, being within the limits of the province, consist of 7,400 souls, so that the whole, exclusive of the King's troops, amount to 76,2.75 souls, of which in the parishes are 19 Protestant fami lies, the rest of that persuasion are traders, mechanics, and publicans, who reside in the lower towns of Quebec and Mon treal. All have their fortunes to make, and I fear few are so licitous about the means, when the end can be attained. I re port them to be, in general, the most immoral collection of men I ever knew—of course, little calculated to make the new subjects enamoured with our laws, religion, and customs, and far less adapted to enforce those laws which are to govern them. " On the other, the Canadians, accustomed to arbitrary, and a sort of military Government, are a frugal, industrious, and moral race of men, who, from the just and mild treatment they met with from his Majesty's military officers who ruled the country for four years, until the establishment of civil govern ment, had greatly got the better- of the natural antipathy they had to their conquerors. " As they have been taught to respect their superiors, and arc not yet intoxicated with the abuse of liberty, they are shocked at the insults which their noblesse and the King's officers have received from the English traders and lawyers since the civil government took place. " The improper choice and numbers of the civil officers sent out of England increased the inquietude of the colony. Instead of men of genius and untainted morals, the very reverse were appointed to the must important offices, and it was impossible to communicate through them those impressions of the dignity • of the Government by which alone mankind can be held toge ther in society. " I glory in having been accused of warmth and firmness in protecting the King's Canadian subjects, and of doing the utmost in my power to gain to my Royal master the affections of that brave hardy people whose emigration, if ever it should happen, will he an irreparable loss to this empire." One of the strongest bonds by which the conquest' of Canada was secured to England was the indignation of the Canadians at the rapacity, peculation, and frauds of the civil administration of Fiance, the Intendant-general having defrausled the colony of 400,0001.; which debt fell upon the province. The " Quebec Act," passed in 1776, placsd Canada in a situation entirely different from any other Britith colony. By allowing them their own customs, the use of their own lan guage in the Courts, the security of the Catholic Church, with all its revenues and the maintenance of the seignorial tenures, the Canadians were seemed in their loyalty to the British Crown, whilst the insurgents of B.itisi; origin in the neighbouring colonies threw off their connexion with the parent stilt,. They had thus been only sixteen yea s subjects of England, and yet, although France took the part of the United States, they remained during the seven years' war of the American revolution the most steadfast allies Eng land has ever had. In 1791 the " Constitutional Act," divided the province of Quebec into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and gave to each a separate Legislative Government, consist ing ofGovernor, Council, and House of A ssem bl y . Th e r e a object of the Government in passing this Act was to allow the Canadians the benefits of their own establishment s and laws, and to confide to themselves such alterations in either as now circumstances might render expedient. In 1796 Genet al Prescott was appointed Governor. During his admiaistration much abuse occurred in the granting of Crown lands, and the members of the land-granting depart ment having managed to grant each other large tracts of the most valuable lands, to the injury of vast numbers of settlers and (migrants, Governor Prescott and the Chief-Justice, Osgood, disagreed openly and violently on this subject. In 1810 Sir James Craig, the Governor, having been led into odious measures by his council, actuated by mercenary motives, dissolved the Assembly, which had expelled the Judges. The Judges had interfered in the elections, and took their seats in the House of Assembly. A proclamation Has published, stating that the country was in revolt, and the cu rates of all the parishes were compelled to read the document to the people. In the late war between England and the United States Sir George Prevost pry jrcted the proclamation of martial law; but found that it would destroy the confidence of the Cana dians; and, inde;cl, without the consent of the Provincial Le gislature, no Executive Government can ever establish a prac tical martial law. In 1819, under the Duke of Richmond, the Legislature agreed to pay the civil list of the province, and out of this measure arose those financial questions which have been the origin of the present controversy. The presumptive cause of the discontent which arose is at tributed to the Legislature agreeing to pay the civil list, and the Clown accepting the same without any specific constitu t:onal stipulation at the time. The Legislative Assembly, on the desth of George 111., came to a resolution to appropriate in separate items the whole revenue of the province, amouut ing to 140,000/., including about 34,0004 of annual permit• vent revenue, and a small her.ditary revenue of about 3,4001, both hitherto received and distributed at the pleasure of the Executive. The Crown, however, claim e d th e exc l us i ve r i g h t o f distri buting the later sums, amounting together to nearly 38,000/. " on the ground that the Quebec Act of 1774 and the Ccnsti tutional Act of 179 t imposed on th Lords Commissioners of the 'Treasury the duty of appropriating the revenue granted t v his Majesty by the first of those statutes, and that whilst the ltw should continue unaltered by the same authority by which it was framed, his Majesty's Government e. as not authorized t replace tise revenue under the contruul of the Legislature of the province." Lord Dalt nisie, on his return to Canada in 1825, dissolved the Legislature, and refus •d to approve of the appointment of M. Papineau as the Speaker of the new House. The House refused to elect al> , other, and it was prorogued accordingly. 87,000 of the inhabitants petitiotird the King, and charged the Governor-Geis. ral " with arbitrary conduct, with applying public money without legal appropriation, will violent pro.o gations and dissolutions of the Assembly, with continuing the Receiver-Gener a l in olEce after he was known to be insolvent, and a defaulter to the amount of 96,000/., and with allowing similar abuses with • regard to Sheriffs; with dismissing the principal militia officers fur the constitutional exercise of their rights ; with the sudden and extensive remodelling of the commission of the peace, to serve," they alleged, " political purposes ; and with a vexatious system of prosecmienfor libel at the instance of the Attorney-General." The aff its of Canada were now submitted to a CommitVe , f the House of Commons. Their report recommended, " That ;t a ill he advantageous that 'he declaratory enactnimit in the Tenure Arit respecting lands held in free or common souage should be retained, that mortgages should be special, and that in proceedings for the csinvey once of land, the simplest and least expensive forms should be adopted, upon the principle isf the law of• England ; that a registration of deeds relating to sueeage land should be established ; that means should la• frund of bringing into effective operation the clauses in the Tenure Act; and they eatertain n o d ou bt o h th e expe di enc y of retaining the seignorial rights of the Crown, in the hope of deriving a profit from them; that ssme competent jurisdiction hould r stablished to try ai d d er i de causes arsang out of , this description of property-; and that circuit courts should be instituted within the townships for the same purposes; that he Cat.ael , an3 of French extraction should in no dega, e he listurl.ed in the peaceful enjoyment of their icligion, laws, and eivileges, as secured to thorn by the British Acts of Par liament. " Tiuit, although from the opinion given by the Law Ocers of the Csown, the Committee mutt conclude that the legal ight of appropsisting the revenues arising from the Act of i 7 1 44 is they ace prepare d to say, t h is erea rest j ere a ttit i sf the tllir Cw p r f ° 9Y n it; , te W94hl be best promoted by placing the receipt and espenditmo pf the #4olp pgblip CHARGE. r Permanent Debt Terminable Annuities Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund Sinking Fund The Civil List tither emerges on the Consolidateu Fund, including Civil Government :Services fin inerly paid out of the Civil List, or the Heredi tary Revenues of the Crown ... Total Charge The Surplus The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Oct. TO, 1537, and p a id off nut of the growing pr o d uce o f t h at F und for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, IS:3S, after deducting 250,00 U paid off out of the Sink ing Fund The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 183 in part of the sums gran for Supply Services The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1833 ted by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund The probable amount of Exchequer Dill 6 required to meet th charge on the Con: isatdated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. b, 1833 _ _se venue under the superintendence and control of the House of Assembly. On the other hand, the Governor, the Members of the Executive Council, and the Judges should be inde pendent of the annual votes of the House of Assembly for their respective salaries. That the Committee were fully aware of the objections in principle which may be fairly raised against the practice of voting permanent salaries to Judges who are removable at the pleasure of the Crown ; but, being convinced that it would be inexpedient that the Crown should' be deprived of that power of removal, and having well con sidered the public inconvenience which might result from their being left in dependence upon annual votes of the Assembly, they have decided to make the recommendation in this instance of a permanent vote of salary ; that, although the grant of permanent salaries has been recommended to a much greater number of persons connected with the Executive Government than they have included in their recommendation, they have no hesitation in expressing their opinion that it was unneces sary to include so large a number ; and if the officers above enumerated are placed on the footing recommended, they are of opinion that all the revenues of the province (except terri torial and hereditary revenues) should be placed under the control and-direction of the Legislative Assembly : that the committee could not close their observa:ions on this branch of their inquiry without calling the attention of the house to the important circumstance, that in the progress of these disputes the local Government has thought it neesssary, through a long series of years, to have recourse to a measure (which nothing but the most extreme necessity could justify), of annually ap propriating, by its own authority, large sums of the money of the province, amounting to no less than 140,0001., without the consent of the representatives of the people, under whose. control the appropriation of these monies is placed by the Constitution. " The Committee cannot but express their deep regret thet such a state of things should have been allowed to exist for so many years in a British colony, without any commu nication or reference having been made to Parliament oil the subject." Thus did the British Parliament pronounce the whole Ad ministration of Canada, for a period of several years, to have been an infraction of the constitutional rights of the Ca nadians, and a contravention of the principles of the British Constitution. Extract of the Minutes of Evidence given Lefore tie Select • Committee of the House of Commons, 1834. Lord Dalhousie was succeeded as Governor-General of Ca nada by Sir James Kempt. Sir George Murray in a despatch to Sir James Kempt, dated October 8, 1829, says—" Without the authority of Par iiament, it would not be in the power of his Majesty to.adopt those measures fern which alone a permanent adjustmelit of cite questions in dispute can be anticipated. " There is, I fear, no adluate reason to expect that, in their approaching session, the House of Assembly of Lower Canada will recede front the pretensions which they advanced successrully in the session of 18264 Extracts of a Despatch from Lord Goderich to Lord Aylmer, dated Dee. 24, 1830. " It appears to me, they, for,, as it appeared to my prede cessor, Sir George Murray, to he indispensably necessary that an immediate and amicable adjustment of the question should be brought about ; aid his Majesty's Government is decidedly of opinion that any attempt at such an adjustment would be ineffectual which did not involve the entire assign ment of the revenue raissd ur,d, r the Acts in question to the disposal of the Provincial Legislature, under a conviction that they will assent to such a reasonable grant of a civil list as may be necessary for insuring at all eveuts the independence of the Governor and of the judges." " The instruction, therefore, svlrch I am now commanded by his Maje-ty to convey to you is, that you should, at the earliest convenient period meke a communication to the. Legislature to the following effect : " That his Majesty, taking into consideration the best mode of contributing to the prosperity and contentment of his faithful subjects of the province of Lower Canada, places at the disposal of the Legislature all his Majesty's inter, st in those taxes which are now levied in the province by virtue of different Acts of the British Parliament, and which are appropri..ted by the Treasury, under his Majesty's commands, together with all fines and forfeitures le vied under the authority of such Acts. That hi; Majesty, re lying on the liberality arid justice of the Legislatur e of Lower Canada, invites them to consider the propriety of making some settled provision for such portion of the expenses of the civil government of the province as may, upon examination, appear to require an arrangement of a more permanent nature than those supplies which it belongs to the Legislature to determine by annual votes." Extract of a despatch from Viscount Goderich to Lord A vlmer, dated " Downing -street, December, 24, 1830." (Mark e d " separate.") " My Lord,--Having in my despatch No. 11, of this date, conveyed to you his Majesty's cc nmands upon the subject of the Civil List of Lower Canada, I now proceed to state to you the views of His Majesty's Government respecting those brancli s of the revenue which it is deemed expedient to ex empt from the operation of that arrangement—l mean the casual and territorial revenue. If the funds derived from these sources operated in any degree as a tax upon the people, or tended either in their nature or in the mode of ther col lection to impede or impair the prosperity of the province, I should have hesitaecd in proposing to re!ain them at the dis posal of the Crown. They stand, however, upon a perfectly dill', rent ground from taxes properly so called ; they are en joyed by the Crown by virtue of the Royal prerogative; and are neitln r more nor less than the proceeds of land. d pre petty, which, legally and sonsti!utionally, belong to the Sove:eign upon the Throne ; and as long as they are applied, not to undue purpeses of mere patronage, but to objects vv hich ase closely connected with the public interes's of the province, is is not easy to c.inceive upon what grounds of abstract pre priety, or of constitutional jealousy, the aeplic.tion of them according to hie Majesty's commands, under respons:ble v'ce, can be impugned. " ifcc.)rdind to the accounts transmitted to this country from Lower Canada, it appears that the casual and terr;torial revenue was composed of thefollowing items in the year 1829: " Gros Revenue of.L-su:ts' Estites " Rent of ill, King:* Post 1,200 " Forges of St. Maurice " Rent of King's-Wharf " Droit de Qutnt " Loth et Ventes " Land Fund l,BOO " Timber Fund 1,150 " Total £11.231 " From this sum should be d ducted the revenue of the Je suits' estates, which, being regularly applied to the purpose' of education, cannot properly be diverted from that object. I must, however remark, that the expense of collecting it (be tween 500/ and 6001 ) hears a large proportion to the total amount of the revenue received • and that it ought to be re duced within the smallest pos:iblc compass at as early a period as practicable. The remaindi r, then, of the casual and territorial reve nue m: , 37 be estimated at rather more than 9,0001. ; and if from this item there be deducted the expense of collection and management, amounting probably to 1,5001., o r there abiuts, there will be at the disposal of the Government the sum of about 7,5001., more or I,ss, liable to some increase, would hope, from the double oiTration of diminished expense in the collection, and increased receipts from some of the items. " The first item to which it will obviously be proper to apply this fond, will be that portion of the provision for the clergy of the Established Church which has hitherto been paid either out of the army extraurdinaries, or the funds of the Commissary. General." I the minutes of evidence before the Committee allusion is made to a " private" dcsratch from the Earl Qf Ripon to Lord Aylmer, which was read in Committee, hot which is not inserted in the published evidence. Extract from the First Report of the Special Committee of the House ~i f twer T ibly, to whom wls referred tlt ,Message of the Governor of the 14th Pe.hFuavy, " The Message of the 25 , 11 ultimo expursly reserves for the exclusive disposal of the Crowe, virtue of the Royal pre rogative,' for ollects tlonnpetod with tho public inte rests of the province,' the following sources of revenue : " 1. Rents of Jesuits' Estates. " 2. Relit of the King's Posts. " 3, Forges or St. Maurice. " 4. Rent of King's Wharf. " 5. Droit de Quint. " 6. Lode et Ventes. " 7. Lard Fund. " 8. Timber Fund. " The gross annual amount of this revenue, on an average of the last two years, according to a return commencing in 1818, laid before the House upon address of the 25th ult.,. is 11,2031. 12s. currency. " Your Committee have to observe, that according to a message of his Excellency Lord-Dorchester, then Govenor in-Chief, dated the 29th of April, 1794, whe n th e fi rs t ac counts and es ti mates o f the provincial revenues and expendi ture were submitted to this House, the whole of the casual and territorial revenue then arising within the province was ex pressly stated to have c been most graciously ordered by his Majesty to be applied towards defraying the civil expenses of the province' (see Appendix), and that the whole of that re venue, excepting the land fund' and timber fund,' not then in existence, and the Jesuits' estates, has since been contained in the accounts of the public revenue of the province laid be fo the expenses of Government, as sanceiened by the annual votes of the House, and formed part of the amount of the ap propriation for these expenses, passed by his Majesty in pro vincial Parliament at the two last Sessions, and also in the Session of 1825. " It appears to your Committee, that the whole of the reve nue referred to in the message and statements before-men tioned, which has not already in point of fact been at the disposal of the Legislature, and included in the two last acts of supply, end in that of 1825, consists in the said timber and land funds and Jei-uits' estates, the three amounting on an average of the last two years, to 5 51e/. Os. 9d. currency per annum.; and th ey are now for the first time expressly res e rve d front the control of the Legislature, while monies arising from the British Acts of the 6th of George 11., C. 14, the 4th of George 111., c. 15, and the 6th of George 111. C. 52, nmountiug according t o a statement l aid before the House on the 31st of January, 1829, to 1,8181. 14s. 3d. cur rency per annum,- on ass avenge of the la-t two years in the r ed is iil rent tbAce statement of the British Parliamlevied ent" are included i n t h e express terms Parliament" ar b e y n v o i t rt a u t all mentioned mess turn, tie beingas. . of the mac compansing hi s E xce ll ency ' s message o f the 23d of Fe bruary l ast. ft e h it e tio d n ifi " Your Committee regret that it appears by an answer to another address to his Excellency, also referred to your Com mittee, that no detailed account can be had, at heist for the prevent, of the intended application of the revenues of the Jesuits' estetes, and of the land and timber funds, the only funds classed under the head of casual and territorial revenue which, as before mentioned, have not already been applied and auounted for under Acts of Legislature; and they .cbserve with sincere grief, and not without some degree of alarm, that the pledge of his most gracious Mejesty our late revered So vereign, George 111 , thst this revenue should be applied towards defraying the civil expenses of the province,' is threatened to be - wrested from its true meaning and established, practice; to be applied hereafter towards the support of exclu sive religious esta'eli hments this part of his Majesty's domi nitwit, where your Committee humbly conceive rone of pia the support of religi ous t eac h ers ot h er then those of his own subjects ought i e an y way to b e called upon to contribute to belief, or be exposed to any relative disadvantage whatsoever on account of his religion. " It would be doubly painful for your Committee, under these circumstances, to find both the casual and territorial revenue and the revenue of the Act of 1774 augmented as the latter has been by the rffect of two Acts of Parliament parsed in 1822, front 13,8791. 15s. 7d, to 33,8641. 9s. 10d.,' now claimed as at the exclusive disposal of the Executive Go vernment. " To set this pretension in a more favourable light, your Committee annex the following extract from the communica tion made to the House by command of his late Majesty, through the administrator of the Government, dated the 28th of November, 1828 : The proceeds of the revenue arising from the Act of the Imperial Parliament 14th George 111., together with the sum appropriated by the provincial statute 35th George 111., and the duties levied under the provincial statutes of 41st George chap. 13 and 14, may be estimated for the current year at the sum of 34,700/. The produce of the casual and territorial revenue of the Crown, and of fines and forfeitures, may be estimated, for the same period, at the sum of 3,4004 These see iral sums, melting together the sum of 38,100/., constitute the whole estimated revenue arising in this prsvince, which the law has placel at the disposal of the Crown. His M jesty has been pleased to direct, that from this collective revenue of 3 8,100/., the sa'ary of the officer admi nistering the government of the pro-since and the salaries of the judges, should be defrayed ; but his Majesty being gra ciously disposed to mark, in the strongest manner, the confi dence which he reposes in the liberality and affection of his faithful Commoas of this province, has been pleased to com mand his Excellency to announce to the Assembly, that no further appropriation of any of this reventie will be made until hi s Excellency shall have been enabled to become acquainted with their sentiments, as to the most advantageous mode in which it can be applied to the publie service ; and it will be gratifying to his Majesty, if the recemmendation made to the Executive Government of the province on this sule:ect shall b e s uch as it may be able, with propriety, and with due atten tion to the interests and efficiency of his Mejesty's Government, to adopt." Ext act of a Despatch from Lord Aylmer t i Lord Godcrieh, dated Quebec, Apr'l 6, 1831. ‘, Your Lordship will, I hope., permit ms to say, that I cannot but think many of the cemelsints preferred in the petition of the House of Assembly ere weil founded, a d -for_ . tunately the remedies for them are e elfin reach of His Ma jesty's Government." " I do not presume to enter upon th it part of the petition which relates to the regulatio n of the trade of the'colotly, be cause it is connected with questions of general interest, beyond the sphere of my official duty to oiler an opinion upon. But I hope your Lordship will pardon me foe taking this opportu nity of remarking, that, as a ._tseneral principle, it may be ad visable that the people of Caneda should be allowed to legislate for themselves on subjects purely to al. " The uncertainty and confusion which unquestionably prevail, owing to the intern ixture of French and English laws in this province, call fur a remedy which might, perhaps, be effectecd by means o f a Commissi composed of comp e t en t perso The complaint s of the House of Assembly regardi ,g the imputed conduct of several of the Judges, as le ing engaged in and taking part in the political differences of the province, migh t t, perhaps, be l e f t at t h e d i scre:ion of the person at the headof the Goveinment, who, should he witness any instance of such conduct, would ofeourse take such steps as the circum stances of the eaee might appear to hint to require. bution The cha rge of the House of Assembly as to the distri of judiciary and executive offices almost exclusively wamongst a c erta i n class of subjects in this province, is one re l a ti l c e l d o i eedv annad therefore, d in i justttobeonly b a e n t d ak. t e r n u e, as cannot i i i ) n r o a t c, , n n o t s o v be , di rect the Executive Government in a more equitable course for the time to come. " The waist of responsibility complained of in the case of publicspublic officers wou ld be remedied, I presume, by the est sblish f a tribunrl for the trial of impeachments in ceses not cognizable by the ordinary Courts of Lail', 44 I am not avvsre that there now exists any just ground of complaint as to the want of adequate accountability in persons entrusted with public money ; most certainly such an evil d.d exist until a late period in this colony, to one instance of which ( I mean that of Mr. Caldwell, late Receiver- General) your Lordship, I apprehend, i s not a stranger. The deficiencies in that gentleman's public accounts have long constituted, and do still constitute, one of the most le os minent heads of complaint of the House of .?\stilibly, _upon the ground th at i.o eceurity haying been required from him on re C Pi O n gies appointment' from the Lords of the Treasury, they conceive it a hardship that the province should be Made tp suffer from any want of due prepatelon pn that: oeeesion they havp accordingly all aloe.; 4,llEoqt:tined, and d; still main tain, that the deliciettcies in Mr. Caldwels's public accounts as Receiver-General ought, in justice and equity, to be made good out of the Imperial Treasury, and not out cf the revenuss levied in the province. " Upon a general view of the public affairs of t h e Prov i nce • CHAMBER. OF PEERS —Sera tNc• on lax.. 3. IMPORTANT DERATE ON THE ADDRESS. Count Portalis read the following project of address : " Sire—The Chamber of Peers participates in the satisfaction of your Majesty at the consoling aspect, of France. Free and tranquil, it is happy at seeing the public prosperity make new prcoress each day, as our institutions acquire stability and confidence gains ground After having accomplished the course of justice with firmness and moderation, your Majesty has been able to follow the dictates of your heart. A great :let of clerroncy and pacification has emanated from the 'throne; human gratitude will remember it. It came opportunely to disarm hatred and appease resentment. The Chamfer of Peers is shlighted to has e pre pared the way for this generous and salutary use of your prerogative." The address then coneratulates the King on fleeing confidently ap pealed to the country in new elections. It congratulates him on the satisfactory state of relations with foreign powers. The fallowing is the paragraph relating to Spain : •` We deplore the sad lot of the Peninsula; and see with regret • a friendly nation in the bloody convulsions of intestine war. We desire, Sire, that the faithful execution of the clauses' of the Treaty of Qu... druple Alliance may answer the expectations of your Majesty, and foci. litate the success of a cause which has ail our sympathy. Spain, de leered from the yoke of faction, may then enjoy repose tooter the shadow of the constitutional throne." • . The rest of the address does but echo the paragraphs of the Royal speech. The discussion being opened, M. de Dreux Breze ascended the tribune. The Chamber, he said, was much changed and augmented in its composition, and it was there. fore mare necessary to re-sta'e the political questions before it. He would again, as he did last year, ask the Ministry in what course of policy it a ould lead the Legislature? There was the greatest difference 'in two policies, which prevailed alternately both at home and abroad. One was friendship to, and alliance with, revolution ; the other was the same towards monarchies. Before 1830, France, based upon Spain, was allied with th e E uropean monarchies against England. Now it was Ist, contrary. Since 1830 France bad become isolated, her allies lost, iher principles shaken. The first thing it did was to knd its aid to the 'revolution of Belgium arid Bologna. Then e7.me. Poland, which we said should nut perish.. Ancona was seized; and the eastern powers felt confirmed in their fears. This deprived France of her allies. Prince Talleyiand, however, conceived a plan of replacing' our " old a:lies by one new one—England. The . orator then depicted all the ;danger and perniciousness of this alliance. Such an a liance might have been useful to,the new dyi.asty, but it was fatal to France. This was at ' length felt; and when a 'Minister,. M. Thiers, determined to follow up this alliance in its natural consequences, the. aid of Spanish anarchy, royalty withdrew its confidence in affright, and the Minister and the Quadruple Alliance were overthiPwn together, As :o Eag. I md, it has aasolutely need of influence is Spain for commercial and political purposes. England loses its colonial and other markets every day, and it is in quest of new ones. England is intere;ted in the eosin. nuation of the civil war in Spain. It hail gatrisotiiat * San "SebaStinn,'' seized Passag s, and has occupied. even Guetaria with Its Marines. Spann h loans hare been a gulf for French capital, a gain for English monied men. The orator alluled then to the silo nee of our Queenni speech with regard to France, and, this at a time when Eitg'and was forming commercial Ascetics with Powers everywhere to the detriment and exclusion of France. ' He instanced Portugal, Censtantinople, E a ypt, Holland, &c. The expedition against Constentioa was, however, some consolation, as it shOwed Francentad not forgot the precedents of the empire and the restoratipn. • All had rejoiced in it except England and the English Prose. This was sufficient to prove its advantage. M. de Die x Breze then turned to the internal policy of the country, and cormlained that since 1830 the Constitution lead been falsified, liberty oppressed, the jury nullified, and a systeat of rigour pursued, t::e proof of the futility of which exists in its having been abandoned An amnesty was given, conciliation affected, but merely for the purpose of recurring, as soon as possible, to the old system. The orator then returned to ask whether the silehce of the Queen of England's sp 2: eh respecting France was not a sign of coolness ?.-errhether they p rserersd in the Quad. ruple Alliance ?_whether they perserered in the keeping of Algiers ?a whether it would persist in upholding the unconstitutional powers given to the Court of Peers by the September law. Count Mole rose to answer. The last speaker had cast a general censure on the policy of the Government, and should be answered. First he had asked respecting the silence of the Queen of England's speech, and whether this did not augur a coolness or cessation of this alliance? He would answer, that never was the alliance cf France and England more intimate,' never were the agents of the two countries, whether in Lisbon or Madrid, more in accordance. As to Passages, England offered France 'for the latter 'o occupy it. The French Government refused; it was fortified, and Itch! by the British merely to keep it from the Carlists. The Minister then attested th e fr i endly relations of France ~ with the States of South America. The lasi sp..alier had complained of the incertitudes of Governmeat with respect to Algiers. But these in certitudes existed merely in the pubic journals, item nitwit the Noble Duke had taken them. ' Tae expeditions of La Tafna and Constantina were the consequence of the Policy announced lad year, which was to make peace, if possible, and if forcedtp it, to • snake courageously war. As to Tunis, where France avas aaia to have suffered humiliations, it was quite the contrary. 'The 'naval force 'of France had there upheld the interest. of the collistry. He then would' reply to an insinuation with respect to the Royal Fancily having married Protestants. He, the Minister, was a good Catholic. The Duke of Orleans rose to answer the insinuation. In a few sen. testers, warmly pronounced, the Duke d elarel that he was a good Catholic, that his children should be reared and educated as Ca' holies, but that he respected all religions. Count Mole then resumed, •and Spoke of the amnesty as an act not of weakness, but of strength. It was the commencement of r conciliation not of reac• ion. The tad speaker had asked mareaves, was there ho mogeneity in the cabinet e He was aware that there never was a cabinet more homo;seneous. The cab:iiet wlss agreed, bee-Ls eit slid not b..leng to a'rt'y party. T: e present tranquility' and security was the best triumph and boast of Ministers. . . . M. de Montalemb er t entered upon a warm panegyric on the present 4 Satioish Cabinet, whica gave brilliant prornises. It - had I (Asses! to sane. ;lion the spoiliativa, of the clergy ; it had punished the assassins and aanarchista of the army ; in short, the present Ministry was such as to ' emend of the Chamber a stronger approbatimi of the constitution, arid of - the party whi c h now administered the el'airs of that country. He Would in•fit tim e move an arnendineat in 'thi s sense. c The - President then read the; addresi. Whea s ise came to the part relative to tbe aa.nesty, . . . .. , , : .: • The Due de Broglie rose, and rem i rking " that the "words of Costa• x,o!e, statiag h , (tire amnesty was a goal of a new policy, that of con_ Ciliation, he thought that this was a leffection bn tine policy of preceding Cabinets. But the paragrapa just read contained an adhesion to the policy of farmer Cabinets. Would Count Mole naoae to emit this ? The Due de Broglie then made a panegyric on September laws. ' A serious debate then arose on the wording of the adnress, on th is very point. , • M. Villemain—No doubt the triumph of the law preceded, and must have preceded, the amnesty; • btit he could not do more than admit this fact. He could not, in assenting to what had been, done for the defence of public order, assent also to all the measures of past Administrations. Ihe law, for examp`e, that rendered the vote of the jury secret, that changed its majority, , and made one vote sufficient to establish it, was not in the spirit of our institutians; nor could he consider Cie law giv. ing diseretionary power to the House of Peers' to try s nd judge misde. ineanours of the press, by calling them treason, as a useful developen mr..nt of the Charter. He could not give his assent to laws which, passed in times of passion and violence, had destroyed the true character of the Constitution. The most sincere friends of ;subtle order; including the actual President of the Council, had opposed these laws, not only as hostile to liberty, but as dangerous to good aiLl'strict government, since such laws, passed in the impute of passion, are likely to be repealed, and were repealed, by a counter.anpulae of still wilder passion. 1 The Duke d e B rog l i e said in his opinion; the Seseesnber laws were,: wise, and ought to be permanent. AL Cousin said he had not the same opinion of the September laws as his friend M. Villemain. He had voted for•thern . ant would do so again. It would be impolitic to abolish them, for this would discourage those defenders of public order who had pas,ed them. He would not make use of the laws, indeed ; but lay them as arms Usetbl to keep by one. The amnesty was the era of a new policy, that of concilia. don, which dated from the 22d of February, and was co;stinued by the present Cabinet: He wonl.l advise it to continue in the same path. H. Barthe, Ministor of the Interior, denied that the amnesty was of a new policy. It Would be ungrateful thus to condemn, the beginning as old and past, a policy which had saved the country. Count Mole had voted for the September laws, and lie had never. theless, at a later period approved of the amnesty, becauaa he had 'thought the moment oppertuae for such a measure. %Ver.: Riction again' to raise its head, Ministers would again be rostra to oppose it; but he trust. ed that the amnesty would prove is now ers--san era of conciliation. The amendment of M., d'Arnbevate was then put to the vote and reject@d ; anti the Od peragraph was adopted. On the 4111 raragraph, m , 4 Montalenahert regretted that the address made ho inetition of th e affair of Ortmenwald, 'or of the demonstrations of pap. French Government in favour of Belginm He was also delieas s a of introducing some allusion to the violation of tile constßutioa of Cracow. The Russian Government i 1,,,e ehosved, was not so friendly to France a s t o induce her repe.egie,nlt ives to b e sparing of such allusions. a pe Pres ident of the Council centended thin ihq.fnautty ot France had never been sacrificed to an 1, 1 1 11 1 .! C.l.4sit4efaion fur foreign power s . pc Affic of 9;,41P5+ 1 15 1 44 4 t'i ltAind A - hint been happily terminated _ . _ la 8,11 7,,68 720,846 3,795 678,053 127,500 422,221 1 471, 10,070,383 9,M2 1,267,823 I ,c 3 11,318,106 1 11,143, 4,719, '2,790,b90 1,611,c81 l,l FRANCE. of Lower Canada, 1 would take the lib, rty of suggesti, g. the course most aqvisatle in the actual s.att• of the public mind, that every possible attention should b given to the several subjects of complaint comprised in the petition of the House of Assembly, with a view to their remcval or modifica tion, according to circumstances. " I cannot close this despatch without p-rforming what I conceive to be an act cf justi , m ; and that is, to expres-,1 to, your Lordship my fir.n conviction that throughout the whole of the King's vast domini-ns his 11 , Injcaty not hero possesses subjects more loyal and true than the mph) of Lower Canada." OPINION OF 7112 COMMISSION2RII Wllll RESPECT I'O LOCAL'IIO. VERNMENT AND MENICIPAL INATIVITIONS. " 8. Since the whole of the revenue of Lower Canada is, with few exceptions, raised by duties rf custom, the Reuse of Assembly is, by the operation of the Trade Act, eaten tially crimped in the exercise of one of the most important functions of a representative body. They have a lager re venue than they want for any of the ordkary i.urposes of gl vernment, without the power Lf redueiog it, by taking ofl taxes ; and this superabundant revenue is censequentlyappli• d by them to many purposes which, pei haps, in their own opi nion, and certainly in ours, would be better provided for either wholly or in part by local assessmeats ; such, for instance, as the expenses of gaols, the maintenancof sehAvli, az.d the re pair of highways, bridges, &c. ; and thus it hap ens that the_ inhabitant s o f par i s h es or districts a...c first revented from having iu their awn hands the mnisgerLent of the affairs in which they are immediately cone( rned, and ti:en reproached by their political opponents with an incvneity for public busi ness. We cannot help makiv, these rerreoks, because we think that, in the present particular at -least, the 1, aders the popular body have shown a laudable eesire to get out of what has been called the French system, a system which made the G overnment everyth i ng and the people nothing ; and that their opponents have laboured, and aro still labour inr, to perpetuate the vices of a condition, the evi's of which, as far as they hurt themselves, they are ever loud in •dtriluncing. We need scarcely say that we allude to the f-eluent failure of bills for the election of township and parish officers, and for the ma.. nagement of other matters of local concernment. MINUTE OF SIR CHARLES GREY. "I should regard it in rresent circumstances as a wise re solution to make, either no application at all to the Imperial Parliament, or one for a comprehensive and permalent adjust ment. At the same time, I e.rn obliged to, say, that I have no hope of the troubles of the province, as it is at present consti tuted, being settled by the existing Canadian Legislature. A year's residence in the country has convitiied The that without a perpetual dissension, the British in Lower Canada cannot legislate in - forensic affairs for the French Canadians, nor the French Canadians for the British, or for a prov:nce and a river which are the heart and life-blood of the British American commerce and colonies; nor is then: any ch Ince that, under the present laws of election, the two parties Klll be so blended in the Houses of Legislature as to make tiros., bodies effective instruments of Imperial Government.'' 9 708,,:09 11,457 COURT CIRCULAR. A Cabinet Council oi as held at half-past one o'clock yester day afternoon, at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Vis count Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Duneannon, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, Earl of Minto, Lord Holland, Mr, Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Howick. The three Ministers absent were out of town—Sir John Hobhouse at Corsham House, the Marquis of Lansdowne at Bowood ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Weston House. The Council sat till past five o'clock. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town soon after one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. Dispatches from the Earl of Gosford, Governor of the Ca. nada , , were received yesterday morning at the Colonial Office. In the afternoon a messenger was sent with dispatches to her Majesty at Windscr. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville entertained at dinner on Saturday tl:e Duchess -Countess of Sutherland, Baron Dedel, the Netherlands' Minister, Lord and Lady Eliott, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Wortley, Sir C. Bagot, Mr. Rogers, Lord J. Fitzroy, etc. Lord John Russffrand a small party dined with Lord Hol land, at Holland House, Kensington, on Thursday evening. Viscount Melbourne, by the pressure of State bu siness, has postponed his annual visit to the family domain at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire. The Earl of Lichfield, and the Hon. Colonel - Anson and his lady, niece to the Duke of Rutland, arrived at Belvoir Castle, on Thur..day, from Shugborough Park. Lord Spencer has returned to Althorp, from a visit to his sister, Lady Littleton, at Hagley Park. His Lordship also visits periodically his mother-in-law, the venerable Mrs. Ack!am, at Leamington. Sir Henry Halford is still in constant attendance on the Countess of Chesterfield. Her Ladyship is out of danger, and, will probably b removed to the south of France in a short time. Viscount Coinbermere's only son, the Hon. Wel lington H. Stapleton Cotton, has entered the army as Cornet in the 7th or 'Queen's own Hussars, the Marquis of Anglesey's regiment. Baron Lionel Von Rothschild, the head of the London-house, has been provisionally appointed Austrian Consul-General in England. Lord Forester and a party, from Wyllie Park, arrived at Belvoir Castle on Wednesday. The Itio,lit Hon. George Spencer Byng arrived in town yesterday from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesea, at Beaudesert, in Staffordshire. The Rev. C. Spencer Bourehier, M.A., Vicar of Sandridge, and Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Plymouth, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of London to the Rec tory of Great Hallingbury, void by ttLe resignation of th e Rev. A. Cotton. Patron, John Archer Tfoublon, Esq. We learn by the Oxford New . York packet, of the 16th ult., arrived at Liverpool, that the Europe had not ar rived at New York; but letters from Liverpool to th e 4 t h Not emb er , had been r ece i ve d per Chatham, arrived at Boston. It takes fourteen days to hear overland from Quebec, and seventeen days from Montreal at Halifax. Mr. Mortimer and Lady Emily Drummond are ei.- tert3inincr a gay party at Site House, Denham, Bucks. Earl Ducie and the Ladies Moreton at Woodch2s ter,Park, Stroud, have been entertainin g a select party during the, holidays. Lord and Lady Harewood have seen a succession of fashionable visitors at Harewood House, Northallerton, during the holidays. The venerable Lord Lonsdale kept open house during the whole of List week at Cottismore, his Lordship's hunting seat in Rutlandshire, where he has arrived for the season, and also at Lowther Castle, and \Vhitehaven, in Cum berland. The Earl of Derby has had a family circle consist ing,of Lord and Lady Stanley, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Pen rice, and the Hornby family, assembled during the holidays at at Knowsley, in whi c h ex t ens i ve di s t r i ct t h e Noble Lord dis tributed his bounty to the poorer classes. St. Leonard's, near Windsor, the hospitable seat of the Marquis d'Elarcourt, has been the scene of much festivity durip g the holidays. Her Majesty, in becoming the Patroness of the Royal Naval School, has b?an graciously pleased to signify her intention, through . Sir H Wheat!ey, o f grant i ng t h e s ame subscription a s late lamented Majesty, who contri buted one hundred pounds annually from the period of the first projection of the school, in 1831. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is a donor of one hundred pounds to the institution. • The Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Rutland have been amongst the visitors to the Marquis of Exeter this week. Th© Duke arrived at Burghley on Monday even'ng, and left on Wednesday morning, for Belvoir. There was a grand rilcu,gliter of game on Tuesday amidst the pr eserves tear Burghley House. The quantity killed was prodigious— almost as many heads as fell at Waterloo. Sir Richard Phillips, to whom the public are iii•- debted for the reform of all honks of education, has written, and will publish in a few da)s, a brief Catechism of the British Constitution, adapted to. schools, and to the proposed System of general public instruction. At this crisis it is a most important subject for the study of the whole rising- ge neration. The Earl of Yarmouth has delayed his departure from Paris until March next. The Marquis of Douro arrived at B.Avoir Cistle on %Wednesday evening. . , Mr. C. \V. Codrington. M.P., who is staying at Badmint on , met w i th a 'serious accident, a few days since, while hunting, by falling from his horse. The Hod. Gmtle tuzn had hia right shoulder bone broken, but is no recovering from the effects. When the Hon. Cololl?l Cathcart, son of the vete ran Earl Cathcart, waiter! on Lord by appoiament a fow t ilY B since the Gener a l Commanding-in-Chief inquired what a 'n,o Col one l C at h cart would requ i re to prepare himself fur ,;;Ive servi ce and roceeding to Canada with despatches,,, "e gallant officer, after musing a moment, replied, an hour. my Lord; but if necessary, I will be ready in twenty Minutes." On Friday mornina, the body of a female, appl rektly about sixteen years of age was washed on shore in the ,Sleighbourhocd of Kil mun . Haying been carefully ins.weed, ' 2 „t ainr:p(sesirs to have been fully three weeks in the water.—Scots ABSENCE OF MIND.—A Mr. Jahn J. Jenkin -83", of Arkansas, whose sight is such as to render glasses ne ssary, Put his s p ectac l es on hi s ear i nstea d o f his eyes one -14 Y last week, and actually walked three miles sideways in a heav y rain before he discorm ed his mistake. —American Paper RIG!' COURT OF JUSTICIARY.—TRIAL OF ` II E COTTON SPINNERS.—This important trial commenced _ye , sterday, an d proceeded till half-past seven i n t h e even i ng . W hen the Court adjourned till half-past nine this morning. the the jury was impannelled, the Lord Justice Clerk called no attention of the Court to the fact, that from the great im portance of this tri:ll to the interests of the public and of the Prsoners, it would not he proper to publish any part of the r,pceedings till after the verdict of the jury was returned. i he other Judges concurred in this suggestion, Lord Mon :reiW remarking that this was abso'utely necessary, as the pri soners might have a great deal of evidence to explain away it te effect of that produced for the. prosecution ; and therefore `Vag due to them that the one should not be published with- Z . ll o t the other. In consequence of this injunction we refrain terdnl.lP,ublishing any part of the evidence brought forward yes- I nt . 4 ., but when ti:e trial is brought to a close our readers lePend upon a. full report of the whole proceedings.— Uri/1 CourGat. L groei r in the High-street having exhibited in 1 • 10 11 wind ow t h e letters V. R., formed with candied lemon e ~hat.l being asked the meaning of the device, replied" he alvay; understood that the Queen was of a very candid Position 'l-IVorce,ster ionrizat. 3,•-94,315 3;193,315 3,803,764 1,57 , ,r,29 4'04,660 349,000 tAI,US4 I through the intluei, e _ of Pi teela. On the subject of th e violation of the Constitution of &avow exii'ana:ions I , ad been cleman4(l, and the de. mend would be rep:vested till a satisfactory answer alitinhi be obtained. M. Bignon spoke in favour of k-o:and, and inakagrathat the tna.nte_ nanc;. of her nationality was of importance to Vrance,' and to 4411 Europe: M. Vi.le.nain followed cn the same side. The Preiident of the!Council participated in the feelings which had been . displayed on behalf cf Pciland ; but, a' the 6trae tin.c, declared Putt on tat . quo6too Governtnent had .tionc all that oot4:d possibly be irs3ed tvi bout ctiltt:tiz the path at nept:atkoh. . ~• • Thu 4th pArA3Ta:, I wea adqlcd, in: : :: the litt:l7.il was ktkicurent4 at bait* . pest fit;. CIT7INtI Am. 4. Although the 4th article: had bon vottd In tha proviout Pitting ! V9I COUnt d t klareettrt nevel - theless demanded to propoae an addition to this article, TEL; addition Was a sentence, hoWevt? Mild, In Nyco. of Po. lat.d: It Was-urge.' how useless it was fora nation like. - France tti ON press sympathies and vows without being followed up by 4,15. It is bet useless, It keeps Alva the hopes of Poland, as a similar conduct kep4 alive the hopes Of the Greeks, until they sureweded at lot In recaverlill their ladepe.:dette,,.. Count Male said; that he adhered 11114 to Rig worth lOW sentenCil t f Count d'llst'elin I ii, thyour of t.,it Ptikl, The assiAiinee Riven Id, the r, ropes from Puland stir.ozi the senttan WS or ti , A , rotoent, 144 t tilts annual proof of powcrlorsness, Liven It. tic Patlarnentary siltiftssu, can tend to nothing but to draw the rt.scntinent Q. !Nada Oh the Poles. M. ViltentaM lnsssteu that th re was a moral and po:itical advant6tre in am h an arneimmenr. M. d i e Montalembek cosh atleted the President of tpc Cr.uncil there hating nevcr-beor a simila r amendment in the :..ddress of the as to Peers. 'the reefs should - not rem a in behind ',trinities on such a questi^n. Count - I.),ejean asked what wa s th: meaning of the Polish nationality ? Why, the old Polish provinces had become Russian. Tire French . found i.o s,rnrathy, no Poles, in Ga:icia or Posen. Ali that remained of Poland was the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, containing nut more than two millioes of population. \Va.: this Duchy, in its resuscitation, what people called the nationali•y of Poland ? 111. Vibe:nein replied to Count Dejeen, that it was no other Poland than that cmstitated by the Treaties of 1815 to which he had alluded, It was tho PoLnd that had sent an army of eighty thousanth-men against Russia. It was not small —not wretched. And even if it were, is there no justice or pity for the small state, as well as the great? Cracow e. as to him as precious as any large country in Europe. As to the Pules, Russia cannot crush them more without exterminating them ; but they cannot be exterminated. The mere words of sympathy of France and England are 'sufficient to krep . them alive. . . The Duke de Broglie said that it was alloWed that the treaty of Vi. enna was broken with respect to the nationality, and with respect to Cracow. France had protested, and thought to do more, but this does not invalidate the protest. The Count de" Moi.t lembert said that the Poles were the best judges • of what,would be useful-to them. Yet every Pole, desired such marks of sympathy from the French Chambers. - Every year brought new facts of cruelty on the part of Russia. Should not, • Oren,. .these new acts Produce new protests from us ? Prussia and Austria had in a degree observed the clauses ()film treaty of - Vienna towards 'Poland. .Itusala had not. 1%.e amendines.t of Count cl'Harcou.t was then u t and rejected. ~, The Chamber pa sse d to the sth paragraph—that concerning the affa:rs of Spain. M. Cousin rose —The Struggle of Spain has now arrived at its crisis, when a little, succour can save it, and the wart of any must occa,ton the destru tion cif the Cor-stitutional cause. Should that ever take pla. , e, an immia:se danger is imminent for France. He would, ' therefore, question the Minister as to his policy. What did he mean by his sympathy ? What was the extent of it as alluded to in the ad. dress ? Ilad the Ministrytaken a decision ? Is the Ministry resigned to witnns a counter-revolut:on in Span, and to give its syrnpathim there, as in Poland, to a eause'Which it allows to go to ruin ? The orator then turned to the sgnificalon of the Quadruple Alliance, wh'ch he said, was an a.miess mass of scribbling, unless the words of • the preamble be taken literally, and the expulsion of the Pretender considered the only end of that treaty. This being the sad, the lOUs article rendered co-opera ion obligatory, h order to attain it. A blockade was the comas , ncement, tut this did not imply that a blockade v;ys all that the treaty demanded. It was an instalment of a great debi. The Ministr3 paid, the instalment, and then plead_d that is had paid all. It stuck to this miserable blockade, which had cost :oillions to the court ' try, and had lit Don Carlos to augment lit, force to a formidable army. The bl ckade was vain, and if it be a . fnlited to be to, shah not other means be resorted to, for, in fact succours were promised that should be stile clout. Mi::isters pleaded there argunienti for not aiding ; firs', that Spain was in anarchy, and that France could not aid anarchy ; seNnally, that France would not unde.take the Government of Spain, which the Spaniards would nbt suffer. The events of last year had, however, destroyed these arguments. There was no anarchy ; a constitu don was established, a id with it tranquility, by ,the e ve:y anarch:sts the 3linistry would not e'p. And under the very constitutha the refugees of La Granja have re entered the Legislature. And now, in the midst of this moderate re-ae.ti,n, all parties, Martinez, Cala trava, the Senate, the Cortes, demand French intervention. No other idea is popular in Spain. It is a moment of 'European peace, tho very moment to nettle the affairs of Spain. E:•ery thing in Spain and out of Spain, in France and out of France, induces you to aid Spain. • When all you aid it, if you do not now ? As to the kind of succour, he would Itsave it to the Ministry, but he would indicate what he would • prefer would beats intervention armed under French colours and French generals. This would finish all in a campaign. Why should not French generals be permitted to serve its Spain as is Belgium?* Or, In fine, why not aid Spain tutu , money as Greece was aided I In fine, he would seriously demand of the Minister an answer. The whole cret of the present moderation of Spain was hope in France. Takeaway that hope, .and anarchy is the consequence. His question was, what guarantee would the Minister give to Frat.ce that there should be no counter:revolutints in Spain *; or how did he interpret the 4th article P Count Peet de la Loaere declared that the Government had created a great change in the policy of Fringe towards Spain, and that it was the task of- the• Chamber of Peers to impress more fixity on the yolley of Governrce.. t. 'rile Duke de Noaitles mounted the tribune at 4 o'clock. • THE. ARMY. • Major,Gtneral Sir .Thomag i• . earsolf, formerly of the 2:14 Fusileers, hag, we understand, been offered a command in Canads, ; vvhere his knowledge of the country and inhabitants, added to hi 3 high military character, must render him an. a bl e assistant' to Sir . J.' Colborne. We stated-in our publication on Wednesday, that some doubt existed w beth-r a regiment of cavalry or a few squa 4 .rona would be sett to Canada ; we wrre correct, as s‘Q now learn that three squadronsselected from the' King's Dragoon Guards and 7th Hussars, constitute the force intended fur this pac:l - service. The Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards are'to replace the 2d und batta!erionorders of t for Canahe same d a .regiment at Windsor, th e latter being. • We have heard a whi-iper of some contemplated resignations in the Guards in consequence of u d.r orders for' Aire.. r:c1; but we trust, for the honour of the service, that the report may be incorrect. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, JAN.. 6. —On Saturday last the Hulsean priza . for 1837 was adjudged to Henry Shepherd, of Clare Hall, fn- his dissertation on the following subject To com pare the evidence which Christians of the present age have fur the truth of the Gospel with that which the /int converts , possesse.d. The Trustees uoder the will of the Rev. John Hulse have given notice, "that a premium of about one hundred pounds will this year be given for the dissertation on the following subject:— ?hat a Revelation contains mysteries is no solid argument against its truth." Mr. W. W. Fi3her, M. 8., who' had been nominated by Royal Patent to a Fell ows hi p i n. Downing College, in this Univer s ity, was on Monday last admitted a Fellow of that SJciety. The Rev. W. M. Allen has been collated to the Perpetual Curady,of Fordharn, in Norfolk, on the presentation of E. R. • Pratt, of Ryston, Esq. On Tuesday week the Rev. John Toll Butt, M. A., was licensed to the Perpetual C urac i es o f Seething and Mundhara; No: - folk, on the nomination of the Trustees of the Great Hos pital, Norwich. On Wednesday week, the Rev. Cremer Cremer, B. A. was, instituted to th e. R ectory o f Beeston near the Sea, Norfo!k, on the presentation of the Queen, in right of her Duchy of Lan caster. • At an:Ordination held by the Bishop of Salishurv, in the Cathedral Ch urc h o f S arum, on Sunday, the 24th ult., the following Gentlemen of this Uhireisity were ordained : DEA CONS.— R. B.A. St. John's C am b r id ge ; J. Pattes,sn, 8.A., .Corpus Cl•rsti,:Cambridge ; F. N. High- More..B. A., St. John's, 'Cambridge ; A. Tate, M.A., Em mane; I, Cambridge. PRIESTS.—W. Coxe Radcla., B. A., Tr pity, Cambridge; J. P. Eden, 8.A., St. John's, Cambridge ; W. Borman J. rob, M.A., Enmitnuel, Cam'ilidgc ; C. J Phipps Eyre, , 13. A., C 4 ' Catherine Hall, Camb r id ge • G. Thompson Yard B. A., St. P e ter' s , .Cimbridge; N. Belfield Dennys, 13. A., Queen's, Cambr.dge, • At a General Ordination, ILA by the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, tit :he Cathedral, Gloucester, en Sunday, the 2 oh.. the following Gentkmen of this trnliersity metre ordain d DEACON —G. Carter, S.C. L., Queen's College, Camitidge. PRIESTS —C. C. Awdry, B A., Catherine Ilall, Cam !ge ; R. Betton Cartwright, B. A., Queues, Carnlpidge ; 1,. R. Cyan 11. A., Catherihe Hall, Cambridge ; J. Prose t k Green) 8.A., St. Peter' s , C am b r id ge. TI brig Quatre Seears suffered shipwreck at six o'clock on the nro!n'ng of the 30th of December, on the rocks of Cauville, on the coast of Normandy. There were only two men, the master and his son, on boar.' of her when she s ruck. The son, a youth of fifteen or sixteen, perished. The circumstances which accompanied the accident are very dis tressing. 'I he master, Phlissir, in his anxiety to save his son, threw his arms rcund him, in order to keep him above water during the space they had to swim to gin the shore; bet the youth perceiving his father would lose his own life in the attempt, without lessening his danger, urged him to snirn alone, and he said he should be able to reach the land. On being separa.e ! from his father he attAnpted to keep himself afl but a breaker came over and engulphed him for ever, before the eyes of his distressed parent. The Quatre Soeurs was all the prcperty Phiiisser possessed, and he has lost his little fo.•tune and his sell at the same time. Friday last, a boy, about six years of age, rc6iding about two miles from Marsden, was sent by his parents on au errand to a lonely house, situr.ted in the midst of the common %%bra exter.ds from near Marsden to the junction road from Manchester to Huddersfield. There was a thick mist at the time, and the child got bewildered upon the common, and wan. der,d Iron the road. lie was last seen alive on Friday night, a, long di,tance from any dwelling, by a man on horseback, %lio called nt the nearest house on his way, to request some one to fetch the child, but no one moved to save him, arid he was left to perish. The fact of his having been seen becoming; known; Iris fiends went in search of him on Saturday, and a great misty peopl e were upon the common with 'interns the whole of S,lturday night. On Sunday morning the boy was found dei.d upon the inoor, near Buckstones, where he hal perished of cold.—Munchester Its the heighlwarlioocl of Perth, last, week, flocks: of raiid gem w•er, observed raking a northerly direc.ion—syrnp tem, 'ornin,nily indicative of a continuance of mild wca:her. S'rarlet fever still continucs to rae4e the villages of Denny, Denovt:v.ic.hk.ld, and Milton o' Denny, and is very fatal. =